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These animals resemble vegetation with their coloration, strikingly disruptive body outlines with leaflike appendages, and the ability to sway effectively like the plants that they mimic. E. tiaratum actively sways back and forth or side to side when disturbed or when there is a gust of wind, with a frequency distribution like foliage rustling ...
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Extatosoma tiaratum, commonly known as the spiny leaf insect, the giant prickly stick insect, [2] Macleay's spectre, [3] or the Australian walking stick, is a large species of Australian stick insect. [4] [5] The species has the Phasmid Study Group number PSG9. [6]
Some animals' colours and patterns match a particular natural background. This is an important component of camouflage in all environments. For instance, tree-dwelling parakeets are mainly green; woodcocks of the forest floor are brown and speckled; reedbed bitterns are streaked brown and buff; in each case the animal's coloration matches the ...
The phasmid Extatosoma tiaratum, resembling dried thorny leaves as an adult, hatches from the egg as a replica of a Leptomyrmex ant, with a red head and black body. The long end is curled to make the body shape appear ant-like, and the movement is erratic, while the adults move differently, if at all.
Locomotor mimicry is a subtype of Batesian mimicry in which animals avoid predation by mimicking the movements of another species phylogenetically separated. [1] This can be in the form of mimicking a less desirable species or by mimicking the predator itself. [1] Animals can show similarity in swimming, walking, or flying of their model animals.
Extatosoma [1] is a genus of phasmids, in the monotypic subfamily Extatosomatinae, with two species. One occurs in Australia , one in New Guinea . Both have a colour morph imitating leaves, and one imitating lichen.
Since his childhood, he has been interested in animals, especially the arthropods, amphibians and reptiles in his native environment. He first bred stick insects at the age of eleven with Extatosoma tiaratum and Haplopus bicuspidatus , which awakened his enthusiasm and fascination for these insects and their breeding.